Marvin Isley (August 18, 1953 – June 6, 2010)
– accessed June 2010 was the youngest member of the family music group

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and its bass guitarist.

Early life

Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Isley and his family moved to a home in

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in the summer of 1959. Isley eventually graduated from Englewood's Dwight Morrow High School in 1972.Wilner, Paul
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'', March 13, 1977. Accessed September 18, 2011. "WHEN Sallye Isley moved her brood of children from Cincinnati to Englewood in the summer of 1959, she was participating in a show-business phenomenon.... While their older brothers toured America, the younger Isley boys enrolled successively in Englewood Junior High and Dwight Morrow High School.... Right now, the brothers reside near enough to each other to keep in close touch. Ronald lives in Teaneck, Kelly Jr. in Alpine, Rudolph in Haworth and Ernie in Englewood." In 1976, he graduated from C.W. Post College with a degree in music.

Career

Marvin began playing bass guitar while in high school and by the end of the decade was being tutored and mentored by his elder brothers alongside elder brother Ernie and their friend, Chris Jasper, who was an in-law. By 1971, Marvin began performing bass guitar on

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' album, '' Givin' It Back''. Within two years, he became an official member of the group. In addition to playing bass, he also provided percussion and also wrote or co-wrote some of the group's hits including " Fight the Power", " The Pride" and " Between the Sheets". Breaking away from the Isleys in 1984, he, Ernie and Chris formed the trio, Isley-Jasper-Isley, who had a hit in 1985 with " Caravan of Love". The group broke up in 1988 after Ernie Isley signed a solo recording deal. Three years later, Marvin and Ernie reunited with Ron Isley to reform the Isley Brothers. Marvin remained a member until complications from his longtime battle with

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forced him into retirement in 1997. Having been diagnosed with diabetes in his early 20s, Isley's condition worsened to the point where he had to have both legs amputated. Isley was inducted as a member of the Isley Brothers to the

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in 1992.

Death

Marvin Isley died on June 6, 2010, from complications of

at the Seasons Hospice within Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, at age 56. Besides his three brothers Ronald, Ernie and Rudolph, Isley was survived by his wife Sheila Felton Isley, a son Cory, and two daughters, Sydney and Jalen.

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